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Sunday, 30 August, 2009

Bacon Review Coming Up

The Senior Executive VP of Bacon Reviews has informed me that another bacon
review is forthcoming. At this point, I can't say when it will be posted. But I
can tell you one thing: It's Bayou Brand Bacon - BBB.

High School Band T-Shirts Unacceptable

T-shirts
worn by the Smith-Cotton High School band have evolved into controversy among
parents.

The shirts, which were designed to promote the band's fall program, are
light gray and feature an image of a monkey progressing through stages and
eventually emerging as a man. Each figure holds a brass instrument. Several
instruments decorate the background and the words "Smith-Cotton High School
Tiger Pride Marching Band" and "Brass Evolutions 2009" are emblazoned above
and below the image.

Assistant Band Director Brian Kloppenburg said the shirts were designed by
him, Band Director Jordan Summers and Main Street Logo. Kloppenburg said the
shirts were intended to portray how brass instruments have evolved in music
from the 1960s to modern day.

You can probably guess the rest of the story.

While the shirts don't directly violate the district's dress code,
Assistant Superintendent Brad Pollitt said complaints by parents made him take
action.

"I made the decision to have the band members turn the shirts in after
several concerned parents brought the shirts to my attention," Pollitt said.
Pollitt said the district is required by law to remain neutral where religion
is concerned.

So now, the school district is discarding the old shirts and getting some new
ones made.

Scooter On Wall

Intricately detailed from her classic front fender to his highly detailed
scooter engine this Vespa wall Decor decor is a must to you biker bar or game
room! Casted on durable fiberglass reinforced resin painted and polished to
perfection! This large-scale, display-quality wall decor transforms any home,
bar, restaurant or hotel into something truly magnificent!

Pope Bears False Witness

"Is it not true that inconsiderate use of creation begins where God is
marginalized or also where his existence is denied? If the human creature's
relationship with the Creator weakens, matter is reduced to egoistic
possession, man becomes the final authority,' and the objective of existence
is reduced to a feverish race to possess the most possible."

Stone writes:

The irony is that any historical evaluation places the blame for global
warming and the degradation of the planet firmly in the lap of Christians and
the Catholic church. The Holy Bible, a book atheists firmly reject for good
reason, claims that God gave man dominion over the earth. Christians,
including Catholics, took these words to heart. They used those words as carte
blanche, a justification for all manners of planetary abuse...

The fact
that the Pope would bear false witness should surprise no one. Such is the
stuff of most religions. The hypocrisy of the Pope is monstrous. He lives in
opulent luxury, surrounded by obscene material wealth, while paying lip
service to the poor unwashed masses. Children starve for lack of the most
minimal of nutrition, while the Pope parades around in designer shoes. Words
fail to describe the obscene perversity of this hypocritical buffoon.

Pentacene Molecule

It may look like a piece of honeycomb, but this lattice-shaped image is the
first ever close-up view of a single molecule.

Scientists from IBM used an atomic force microscope (AFM) to reveal the
chemical bonds within a molecule. 'This is the first time that all the atoms
in a molecule have been imaged,' lead researcher Leo Gross said.

Next time maybe they'll focus!!

The researchers focused on a single molecule of pentacene, which is
commonly used in solar cells. The rectangular-shaped organic molecule is made
up of 22 carbon atoms and 14 hydrogen atoms. In the image above the hexagonal
shapes of the five carbon rings are clear and even the positions of the
hydrogen atoms around the carbon rings can be seen.

To give some perspective, the space between the carbon rings is only 0.14
nanometers across, which is roughly one million times smaller than the
diameter of a grain of sand.

Faith-Healing Death In Washington

The
Okanogan County prosecutor is waiting for the sheriff to complete the
investigation into the death of a 17-year-old boy who died at home of a burst
appendix.

Zachery "Zakk" Swezey had no medical care during a three-day illness in
March because his family, members of the Church of the First Born, believe in
faith healing. Prosecutor Karl Sloan says he'll decide if charges are
warranted...

In a story published Thursday the documents say the parents, Greg and JaLea
Swezey, gave their son the choice of calling an ambulance and seeing a doctor.

"We don't force our kids, our kids have a choice. At no time did Zachery
ask to go to the doctor," Greg Swezey told investigators. The parents also
said their oldest son once broke his leg, and they gave him a choice of going
to the doctor, but his son chose not to.

And get this:

Washington's child abuse law has a religious exemption for parents. It
specifies that a person treated through faith healing "by a duly accredited
Christian Science practitioner in lieu of medical care is not considered
deprived of medically necessary health care or abandoned." Other religions are
not mentioned.

Saturday, 29 August, 2009

Watch For Tortillas And Tecate

A federal warning to beware of campers in national forests who eat
tortillas, drink Tecate beer and play Spanish music because they could be
armed marijuana growers is racial profiling, an advocate for Hispanic rights
said Friday.

The warnings were issued Wednesday by the U.S. Forest Service, which is
investigating how much marijuana is being illegally cultivated in Colorado's
national forests following the recent discovery of more than 14,000 plants in
Pike National Forest.

"That's discriminatory, and it puts Hispanic campers in danger," said Polly
Baca, co-chairwoman of the Colorado Latino Forum.

Alanis Morissette’s Twin

Liberal Virus

A
deadly virus has been loosed throughout our system, and wherever it takes
root, it changes the functions and the structure that gave us the grandest,
strongest, freest system of government the world has ever known.

I call it liberalism.

Why? Because, unlike conservatism, which by definition seeks to conserve,
to preserve the very structure our Founding Fathers provided in which
individual liberty could flourish, liberalism seeks to take everybody under a
controlling, supposedly benevolent government, and provide not individual
liberty, but a society in which all needs are met somehow - at the cost of
personal independence.

And then, some clever word play:

The liberal virus, I believe, gains entrance through the I's. Not the eyes,
but the I's. The afflicted liberal proclaims "I think ...," "I want ...," "I'd
rather ...," instead of asking "What does the Constitution say?" or "What does
the Bible say?" as did our Founding Fathers.

The cure:

But we're seeing the even more powerful antidote - the lymphocytes, the
white corpuscles we call ordinary
Americans, who are confronting the blistered spokesmen for the
unwanted, socialistic takeover under way. At town halls and gatherings all
over this country, they're rushing in to create an environment in which the
virus cannot prevail.

Can’t Take A Joke

A prankster who left a fake menu on car windshields in High Park, a place
where dog poisonings have occurred, professes himself annoyed with what he
sees as an over-reaction.

Mel Glickman created a flyer for the Dog Liver Cafe, a fictitious
restaurant that offered "authentic Asian canine cuisine" and more than "100
ways to wok a dog." This outraged some real dog owners. They called the
police.

Glickman said he's a dog-lover, and it was just satirical humor -- an
exercise in creative writing.

Bear In Cleveland

Friday, 28 August, 2009

Getting Fired

I started reading a novel, and the main character got fired in the first
chapter. He said:

"Being
fired doesn't fully hit you until you leave the building, look around, and
take your first breath as an unemployed person."

That got me thinking. Have I ever been fired from a job? Not that I can
remember. I've never even been laid off from a job. I was working at a large S&L
during the S&L crisis. The Feds came in and took over. People were leaving left and right, but somehow I slipped through the cracks. I didn't get fired or
laid off. I eventually quit that job because I had nothing to do and it was very boring. So I pursued the American Dream to see if I could make it as a
self-employed guy. I could.

So let's hear your getting fired stories. What did you
do that was so bad that you got fired from a job?